Gerard Butler

Twenty-five years before Lily James shoehorned herself into a princess gown to play "Cinderella," another up-and-comer donned a differently problematic dress for a romantic fairy tale that also struck box office gold. That movie was "Pretty Woman." Julia Roberts played the street-walking Cinderella in a now immortal bikini-dress hybrid that only barely covered her nether regions. But the character's obliques-baring get-up and street-wise attitude landed her a week-long "date," if you will, with a Prince Charming in the form of a corporate shark played by Richard Gere. The movie's tagline? "She walked off the street, into his life and stole his...

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